Back to the small fishing village in 1982

Ye Yaodong's current reputation in the village is not comparable to that of ordinary people. Even the village chief and village cadres cannot compare with him.

Money is the courage of the poor. If you have money, you can speak loudly. What a rich person says is taken very seriously. As soon as he finished speaking, the crowd spontaneously made way for him to pass.

Some good people were still following him, wanting to ask a few more questions, but he climbed directly onto the boat and moved there.

The villagers watched them busy, and spontaneously reached out to help pick up the goods, and asked a few more questions by the way.

"I won't have time right now. Let's talk later..."

But when he pushed the cart to the collection point, he found that several people were queuing up to be weighed, and the open space next to them was filled with baskets of squid. It can be seen that everyone's harvest was quite good.

Everyone was busy there, so he was a little ignorant when he asked someone to help him at this time.

After Ye Yaodong stretched his neck and took a look, he placed the cart in the open space and asked the villagers to help him take a look. Then he returned to the shore and spoke to his father.

"There are quite a few people queuing up there to be weighed. Let's transport it home directly and use a wooden scale ourselves? The eldest brother and the second brother haven't come back yet, and their carts are still parked at the dock. We'll push them over too, and we'll push two carts back together." Come home."

"That's fine. If they're busy there, don't bother them. We'll push it home and we'll do the same thing ourselves."

There is no money to earn for others, so it’s okay to help with weighing when you are free, but forget it when you are busy. Father Ye thinks so too.

They piled up both carts, sent them home once, and then transported them back and forth three times before transporting the two boats of 24 baskets of squid to their home. In addition, there was a sack of squid picked up by Lin Guangyuan and two sacks of squid. Shelled.

Ye Yaodong planned to count the ones he picked up alone, and then give them to his brother-in-law.

"Is all the goods caught today here?" Mother Ye asked after counting them.

"Well, they are all here. There will be a little more than yesterday. I will weigh them later to see how many pounds they are before you kill them."

It must be weighed before being dried in the sun, so that he can then calculate how many pounds it weighs.

"I know, I didn't move on purpose, just waiting for you to weigh it first. We just finished killing the more than 2000 kilograms of fish we brought back from the market at noon. There are still six or seven baskets that haven't been dried yet. They have just been marinated and washed. Wait for the sun to dry."

"I'm too busy, and there's no place to dry it. Yesterday, 2000 catties of squid were dried, and the gate of your elder brother's and second brother's, as well as your yard, were all hung up. At noon, more than 2000 catties of dried fish were salted here, and they were all dried. It’s the clearing over there.”

"Fortunately, you bought the open space over there. Your uncle and the others are also very handy. They went to chop bamboo and weed the open space early in the morning at dawn. In the middle of the afternoon, they could already pull the rope over there. Let it dry first, and then just put a net around the outside..."

"Your aunts and the others are still drying there right now, and there are still several baskets that haven't been carried over here. Thousands of kilograms of squid and thousands of kilograms of dried fish need to be dried at once. How can there be so much space?"

"If we want to dry the fish, we don't do it a few days early. We just rush together. I think the more than an acre of open space can only be hung for a while. You can take it back today."

"If you dry another batch of dried fish tomorrow, I guess you won't be able to hang the squid tomorrow night. They are all hanging to dry, and the ground is covered with bamboo flats. I borrowed them everywhere today, and the whole village asked for them. Borrowed all over…”

"Okay, squeeze them all into one piece... Either don't dry them all, or dry them all together, or take your time... They were too busy killing fish today, and they didn't even take a sip of water all day long... "

"With such a large amount, I'm not afraid of being stolen at night. Fortunately, I invited your two brothers-in-law to come over and take turns to look at them at night. Otherwise, there might be someone who is jealous, does something bad, throws feces or something disgusting. people……"

Ye Mu seemed to have opened up a conversation, and a large number of bald words came out.

I have wanted to say it since he came back. Seeing that he has been carrying it back and forth, I just found the opportunity to say it now.

"Isn't the boss wanting this, just happened to be together? Today's one will be killed first, and I will call my father-in-law later, and ask him not to ship it tomorrow morning, and deliver it the next day."

"This way, there should be a place to dry the squid tomorrow night. Let him bring a cart back the day after tomorrow. After drying one last night, there should be enough room for it the day after tomorrow. It will just fill up the gap."

When he just came over, he also passed by the open space next to him and saw his aunt and uncle, as well as Ah Qing's elder sister-in-law and second sister-in-law, all drying themselves there.

The open space was filled with bamboo poles, and small pieces of broken fishing nets were hung. They were covered with dried fish. The two brothers-in-law were still busy there.

"Also, there are not enough broken fishing nets. I have collected all the useless broken fishing nets from your family, your elder brother's second brother's family, and our relatives' homes. I will give them all in the afternoon. Wash and dry the fish."

"What you originally planned was to surround the open space with a circle of fishing nets. You have to see who has some useless broken fishing nets left in the village. You can just spend a few dollars to buy them to build a circle."

"It's okay, it's just over an acre of land, what will you do if it's bigger? The money has already been spent before it's earned, and it's a good thing we didn't build a wall right away, otherwise how much would it cost..."

"The stall is getting bigger and bigger. I see that all the money you earned has been spent. You don't want to take your time and save more money. Then you bought a boat, bought land, and then built a wall. ..." "What kind of small workshop should I build? I don't know how much money I can have left, and how much money I have to spend. If I just build a small workshop and hire people to lay bricks, it would be more expensive than building a house on such a large open space, right?"

Having said this, Ye Mu slapped her thigh fiercely and suddenly realized that she was happy to patronize her before.

"Yes, this is more expensive than building a house. No, we can't occupy such a large area... The area is too big and we have to build a wall to surround it. How much will it cost?"

"The food, drink and wages are all money, and the land needs money... You earn money on the front foot, and spend it on the back foot. What kind of money are you earning? There is no money left in your hands at all?"

Ye Yaodong's head was spinning as he listened to his mother's murmurings. Why did she talk so much?

"You know what, stop being wordy and just do your job."

"No, we can't build such a large area. I spent 3000 yuan on labor and materials for your three brothers' house."

"What's more, you said yesterday that you would measure more than an acre of land. This morning they measured it as you said, and it was one and a half acres. The area is larger. How about enclosing it? There are also warehouses and warehouses built inside. Build a house and also build a workshop? No, you can’t do this..."

"This workshop was built to make more money. Otherwise, where would you dry the things in the future? Just throw them on the open ground and make people make trouble? We didn't build it right away. Didn't we surround it with broken fishing nets first and earn money first?" Money, earn more and then build more. The main thing is to enclose the outer wall first. Whether to build a house inside or not, we can wait until next year."

Father Ye nodded, "What Dongzi said is that you can't let things have no place to dry. He needs so many at once. Anyway, we should buy the land and surround it with a place to dry. It's not like we don't have no place to live. , what’s the hurry about building a house inside?”

"Aren't I worried that all the money will be spent and I will have no money? Isn't it all in vain?"

The old lady also said, "Then it's called earning for nothing. The land belongs to our family. The money is spent. We have land, boats, shops, and workshops. Isn't it all earned?" ?”

"These things can be earned and kept there without being lost. The boat can make money, the shop can make money, and the workshop can make money. In the future, the land will belong to our family from generation to generation and can be passed down from generation to generation."

It was rare for Mother Ye to be able to speak out against the whole family, mainly because she also felt that what they said was quite reasonable.

It's just that I have to spend so much money to go out all of a sudden. I feel that my family is empty, and I am a little reluctant to part with it. I feel that all the money has been made in vain, and I don't see it.

Ye Yaodong came out from the yard with a rope and a wooden steelyard, put the rope on the bamboo basket, and said, "Don't worry about it, the small workshop has already been bought anyway, so let's surround it with a fishing net and invite someone to do it." Let’s wait for a month or two to earn the squid money first.”

"After we've been busy for a while, we'll save some inventory. I guess we won't be so busy by then. Let's just encircle the outer wall to prevent some evil-minded people from causing trouble. Just leave the inside empty for drying. When the time comes, Improve it step by step.”

Ye's father also waved to Ye's mother, motioning for her to step aside, "Don't get in the way, let's weigh them first. Once they're weighed, we'll kill them as soon as possible. Ah Qing will take note of the count."

Lin Xiuqing nodded.

As a daughter-in-law, she shouldn't talk back or choke, so she could just watch from the sidelines.

In fact, she also felt that Mother Ye's worries were quite reasonable, but she could do it slowly.

"Keep a count, this basket weighs 55 kilograms..."

"Hey……"

Ah Qing withdrew his attention and quickly wrote it down.

Mother Ye saw that they had finished weighing a basket, so she stopped talking and directly pulled the weighed ones to the side to separate them.

Because the yard is full of sun, and the door of the boss's house is also full of sun. The goods they brought back today are all piled up at the door of the yard. They are full. Not to mention that there is no place to set foot in the yard, and they have to go in at the door. not going.

She hurriedly moved the baskets of fish that had been pickled and washed and were waiting to be dried on the cart, and pushed them to the open space over there first to save space.

He started mumbling again, "There are so many. When your eldest and second brothers come back, there will probably be another twenty baskets. Fortunately, the space here is a little empty. If this were in the old house, where do you think they could be piled?" "

"I'll have to ask two more people to come and kill them later. I killed 2000 catties until midnight yesterday, and today I added a few hundred catties. I can see that I won't have to sleep until tomorrow morning..."

"Then just call two more people and go right away."

There is work to be done and words to be said...

Ye Yaodong didn't say this last sentence, otherwise, his mother would probably nag her again, so give her something to do and send her away.